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1505
Hatred of the inhabitants, why.
of the people, having enjoyed much friendship, he only took a few of these people with him. Moreover, this kidnapping has cost the Portuguese a great deal of blood, as the innocent, when they were caught, had to pay for the transgressors.
Joan Vaz d'Almada comes to the ship
When the people of de Queiros had thus been left without a captain, skipper, or pilot, it was Heaven's will that they should be found by Joan Vaz d'Almada, who had arrived in place of Leite. He provided the ship with the necessary help and took it with him, along with a boat he found near Sofala, in which Antonio de Magelhanes, brother of Pedro Barreto who had remained at Cape St. Sebastian, was sailing toward da Nhaya to seek a pilot. This was because his own pilot had no courage to enter the harbor of Sofala, for fear of the sands and because he was a newcomer to this coast.
5 Portuguese found half dead.
In this boat, Antonio Magalhanes had 5 Portuguese whom he had found at the Quiloa river, 30 miles from Sofala, and who had been pointed out to him as half-dead by the Moors. They belonged to many others who had traveled further on, having come from the ship of Lopo Sanchez, which had sailed from Portugal with the Viceroy d'Almeida.
Ship broken.
They had had the misfortune of having to run their ship aground on a shoal 60 miles from Cabo das Correntes, because it had burst open in such a way that they could not keep the water out. By this, they had saved the crew, the provisions, the wood, the iron, and everything else necessary to build a bark, with the intention of going to Sofala with it, as they judged that if they arrived there, they would find da Nhaya still ready to sail and receive help.
But because Lopo Sanchez was not a born Portuguese, and only had command over the ship through the intercession of Don Diego, brother of